David Robinow <drobi...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> > wrote: > > I don't know about MS Windows, but the Python interactive shell can be > > linked with the GNU Readline library for managing its command line > > <URL:http://docs.python.org/library/readline.html> […]
> > Reading the documentation, I see that the ‘readline’ library is only > > linked with Python on Unix-alike operating systems. > I'm not sure what documentation you're reading The same documentation I linked to above. Immediately below the title, it specifies a limited set of platforms: “Platforms: Unix” limiting the availability of the described module. > but your code works fine on Windows. Thanks. I'm glad to know that. Perhaps you could investigate why, and suggest an update to the above documentation if it's wrong? The bug tracker at <URL:http://bugs.python.org/> would be the appropriate place for such a suggestion. -- \ “Intellectual property is to the 21st century what the slave | `\ trade was to the 16th.” —David Mertz | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
